New Professor’s arrival crowns a year of success for Creative Writing at UTS Creative Writing at UTS welcomes acclaimed poet Professor Sarah Holland-Batt as its new Head, with her appointment capping a year of extraordinary successes for the program.

Delighted to be working with our new Prof and Head of Creative Writing at UTS. Great things ahead! www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/09...

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The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers

Hi Patrick, I’m afraid it’s from release. But we try to offer this program every year. 2026…?

Copyright Agency - UTS New Writer's Fellowship 2025 ($30k) The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund in partnership with the UTS Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that applications are open for the Copyright Agency-UTS New Writers’ Fellowship.Austral...

The Copyright Agency-UTS New Writer’s Fellowship 2025 is what’s up, thank you Bluesky! Based in the Creative Writing department at UTS in Sydney, it supports a writer working on a second or third book. Details below. www.uts.edu.au/about/facult...

Thank you, Charlotte. She spoke highly of your work, including in that fabulous Kenyon Review interview - but I didn’t know this mentoring history. Our own books were so entwined. What connections Varuna has also made. ❤️

Remembering Brenda Walker Award-winning Australian novelist Brenda Walker died last week. Her close friend, Delia Falconer, pays loving tribute to her life and work.

Vale brilliant Australian writer and dear friend Brenda Walker. theconversation.com/remembering-...

Thank Ryan, I’m far down the Japanese lit rabbit hole. Not a Murakami fan but find Mishima intriguing. Like Ogawa. Love Tanizaki and Kawabata.

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project ‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."

Read that again: **116** times.

Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

This

Ah, fabulous. Thanks!!

Yes, I do know Kerr’s work and agree. He’s interesting on the repression of a thread of robust vulgarity in Japan’s history (though I’m a Tanizaki fan and that vulgarity is a reason I love his work). And he’s good on buildings.

Oooh… interested!

“Until the Job-ready Graduates Package has been abolished and a better model for student fees has replaced it as envisioned by the Accord process, the HECS-HELP system will remain manifestly unfair, and graduates in history will continue to draw the short straw.” theaha.org.au/aha-statemen...

Fantastic thread, Naomi and super clear. Thank you!

Also seeking any other creative writing academics, especially in Australia!

Some great starter packs here. I’m now looking for lovers of Japanese literature and culture, Australian historians, environmental historians, and any interesting resources on literature from South America or Asia. Any tips or leads appreciated!

David Dyer’s Kingdom of Dust - an alternative history of the Apollo 11 landing with bonus Norman Maileresque journalist character, alongside Buzz and Joan Aldrin - is the most enjoyable Australian book I’ve read this year (just out).

Haha, yes! I found James Bradley’s order slip in one of mine the other day. A lot of writers and readers in the neighbourhood.

Nightsky | hctr.dev See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky

I made a thing!

I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev

It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃

Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

Thanks! ❤️

Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.

I’d love to be included, please!

Let me check. It may be recorded and podcast.

2024 UTS Writers’ Anthology – Insights from the student Editorial Committee Get tickets on Humanitix - 2024 UTS Writers’ Anthology – Insights from the student Editorial Committee hosted by UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. UTS Central (Building 2), Level 4 Foyer, 61 Br...

The UTS Writers’ Anthology, a national lit journal out of Writing, is now 43 and has launched many careers. Come and hear this year’s editors talk about the joys and challenges of editorship at the University of Technology Sydney’s FASStival on 11 December. events.humanitix.com/2024-uts-wri...

Copyright Agency x UTS Writer in Residence Vivian Pham Annual Address 2024 Get tickets on Humanitix - Copyright Agency x UTS Writer in Residence Vivian Pham Annual Address 2024 hosted by UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Location TBA. Wednesday 11th December 2024. Fin...

Another excellent event out of UTS Writing at the UTS FASStival on December 11, University of Technology Sydney. Our UTS Copyright Agency Writer in Residence Vivian Pham will talk about writing her second novel. Why write dystopian fiction in a troubled world? events.humanitix.com/uts-copyrigh...

In Orbit - This Kingdom of Dust by David Dyer Get tickets on Humanitix - In Orbit - This Kingdom of Dust by David Dyer hosted by UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. UTS Central (Building 2), 61 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia. Wednesday...

Friends, this is a nice way to begin on this platform. (Is the Bluesky equivalent of a tweet a flutter??) Join me and UTS alumnus David Dyer for this FASStival session in which we talk about his wonderful new novel, outer space and the writing life. events.humanitix.com/in-orbit-thi...

Joining the migration (I think).